Poll: More New Yorkers Say Country Is Worse Off Than 4 Years Ago

Forty-four percent of New York voters said the country is worse off now than four years ago, while 30 percent say it’s better, a Siena College poll Tuesday found.

The poll found that 25 percent of New Yorkers think the country is about the same as it was four years ago.

When it comes to how their families are doing compared to four years ago, 44 percent said about the same, 32 percent said worse and 23 percent said better.

The Siena poll found that in New York, President Obama increased his lead over Mitt Romney to 24 percentage points, 59 percent to 35 percent, up a little from 57 percent to 37 percent last month.

Obama, a Democrat, led Romney, a Republican, by 46 percentage points in New York City, 12 points upstate and six points in the New York City suburbs, the poll found. Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly a 2-to-1 margin in New York.

“New York is showing no indication of moving away from its solidly blue status in presidential elections over the last two and a half decades,” said Siena College spokesman Steven Greenberg.

The poll found that voters in New York were optimistic about the future. Fifty-two percent said the country would be better in four years than it is today, and 15 percent said it would be worse.

The poll was conducted June 3-6 to 807 New York registered voters. It has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.